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Acanthephyra quadrispinosa Kemp 1939

Description

Acanthephyra quadrispinosa Kemp, 1939

A widely distributed pelagic waters species; only once encountered in the Indian sector of the sub-Antarctic AOI: 45°53'S, 84°33'E (Hale 1941) and once in the East Pacific sector of the sub-Antarctic AOI (Wasmer 1986); also off southern Australia (Wasmer 1993).

Notes

Published as part of D'Acoz, Cédric D'Udekem & Degrave, Sammy, 2018, A new genus and species of large-bodied caridean shrimp from the Crozet Islands, Southern Ocean (Crustacea, Decapoda, Lipkiidae) with a checklist of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic shrimps, pp. 201-240 in Zootaxa 4392 (2) on page 217, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4392.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1195302

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Oplophoridae
Genus
Acanthephyra
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Decapoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Kemp
Species
quadrispinosa
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Acanthephyra quadrispinosa Kemp, 1939 sec. D'Acoz & Degrave, 2018

References

  • Hale, H. M. (1941) Decapoda Crustacea. British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition 1929 - 1931. Reports-Series B (Zoology and Botany), 4, 257 - 285.
  • Wasmer, R. A. (1986) Pelagic shrimps of the family Oplophoridae (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean: USNS Eltanin Cruises 10, 11, 14 - 16, 19 - 21, 24, and 25. In: Biology of the Antarctic Seas XVII. Antarctic Research Series, 44, 29 - 68.
  • Wasmer, R. A. (1993) Pelagic shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) from six USNS Eltanin cruises in the southeastern Indian Ocean, Tasman Sea, and southwestern Pacific Ocean to the Ross Sea. Antarctic Research Series, 58, 49 - 91.